{"record":{"aliases":["Gustav Tobias von Schilling","Gustav Gustavovich von Schilling","Густав Густавович фон Шиллинг"],"appointmentIds":["russia-a0eaca67eb39cb"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/baron-von-schilling-b3cf440c6a/","countrySlug":"russia","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/baron-von-schilling-b3cf440c6a/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Baron Gustav Tobias von Schilling (1859–1912), known in Russian records as Gustav Gustavovich, was born in St. Petersburg. He attended the Petrischule, studied law at Dorpat, and completed his legal education in St. Petersburg. Before his American assignment he worked in the Foreign Ministry’s central offices. The Erik Amburger database identifies him as first secretary in Washington from 1892 to 1894.","As chargé d’affaires in November 1892, Schilling brought the passport and naturalization certificate of Jacob Goldstein to the State Department for authentication. Goldstein was detained at Kharkov, and Russian officials suspected that his identity differed from the one in the documents. Alvey Adee told Schilling to submit a formal inquiry. Secretary of State John W. Foster objected that sending the papers across the Atlantic unnecessarily prolonged the detention and risked undermining the ordinary acceptance of American passports.","Schilling subsequently returned to ministry work, including service as an official for special assignments. He received the court rank of chamberlain in 1908. He died in Rome in 1912 and was buried in the Testaccio cemetery."],"id":"russia:baron von schilling","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-b3cf440c6aed291a0eb8.html","name":"Baron von Schilling","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["schilling-amburger"],["schilling-goldstein"],["schilling-amburger","schilling-reference"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-b3cf440c6aed291a0eb8.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"5f6614aa98ac3a83","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"schilling-amburger","locator":"Record 76736, internal oid 77690; education and career sections","publisher":"Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies","title":"Erik-Amburger-Datenbank: Baron von Schilling, Gustav Tobias","type":"reference","url":"https://amburger.ios-regensburg.de/index.php?id=76736"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"schilling-goldstein","locator":"1893, document 512","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, FRUS","title":"Mr. Foster to Mr. White, November 26, 1892","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1893/d512"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"schilling-reference","locator":"Career and burial narrative","publisher":"Russian Diplomats biographical reference","title":"Густав Густавович фон Шиллинг","type":"reference","url":"https://rusdiplomats.narod.ru/shilling-gg.html"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 27 October 2026","id":"mission-861afcbc3e63b5a8f8b4","locator":"Describes the traditional tricolor, nineteenth-century coexistence with imperial colors, 1896 national confirmation, use until 1918, and the 1991/1993 changes in shades and proportions. Historical flags use illustrative colors; exact historical shades remain unresolved.","publisher":"","title":"Presidential Library — history of the Russian flag","type":"Mission record","url":"https://www.prlib.ru/gosudarstvennaya-simvolika-flag-rossiyskoy-federacii"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 27 October 2026","id":"mission-c5e600d2a9321cec0767","locator":"Proceedings of the International Congress of Vexillology: black–yellow–white introduced in 1858; white–blue–red continued in use and received renewed official recognition in 1883. The database uses black–yellow–white consistently as an Imperial Russia emblem, while this source documents the historical variation.","publisher":"","title":"Platoff and Knowlton — Old Flags, New Meanings","type":"Mission record","url":"https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/old_flags_new_meanings.pdf"}],"topics":["passports","naturalization","consular protection"]},"schemaVersion":1}